slops
slops Lexical Profile
slops Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Liquid waste or kitchen refuse fed to livestock, especially pigs; swill.
"The farmhands carried heavy buckets of kitchen slops out to the pigsty every morning."
Unappetizing, weak, or watery semi-liquid food or drink.
"The hospital patient complained about being served the same bland slops for three days in a row."
Liquid household waste, dirty water, or human waste collected in a chamber pot or basin before indoor plumbing.
"In nineteenth-century tenements, a maid was responsible for emptying the bedroom slops each morning."
Cheap, loose-fitting, ready-made clothing and bedding historically issued to sailors from a ship's stores.
"New recruits aboard the frigate drew their issue of canvas slops from the purser."
• verb
To spill or splash clumsily over the edge of a container (third-person singular simple present of slop).
"The hot soup slops over the rim of the bowl whenever the train lurches forward."
To feed liquid refuse or swill to livestock, especially pigs (third-person singular simple present of slop).
"The farmer slops the hogs at dawn before starting work in the fields."
• Rhymes for slops
Word Origin & Etymology
The waste sense derives from Old English 'sloppe', meaning liquid droppings or mud, while the garment sense comes from Middle English 'sloppe', denoting a loose outer garment, likely borrowed from Middle Dutch 'slop'.